Indigofera heterotricha
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Flower
13 Dec 2008
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Shrub covered in flowers
13 Dec 2008
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Leaves
21 Mar 2008
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Flowers
21 Mar 2008
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Flowers and leaves
27 Apr 2008
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Habit
06 Apr 2012
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Full name: | Indigofera heterotricha DC. |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | - |
| English common name(s): | Hairy indigo |
| Synonym(s): | Indigofera rudis N.E.Br. |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Pink flowers (sometimes white) Suffruticose, erect; stem, branches and peduncles densely set with horizontal, rigid, gland-tipped bristles; leaves scattered, 4–6 jugate; leaflets (small) cuneate-obovate, obtuse, thick, pale, often complicate, rigidly strigillose and glandular, the terminal sessile; stipules subulate; racemes subspicate, on long petioles, much longer than the leaves, laxly many flowered; calyx segments subulate; petals puberulous; legumes terete, acute, pendulous, strigillose and glandularly setose, several seeded. Root thick and woody. Stems numerous, erect, 6–12 inches high, subsimple or branched from below, rigid, densely gland-bristled, pale green. Leaves subdistant, the common petiole 1–1.25 inch long. Leaflets 2–3 lines long, 1–1.5 wide, usually folded together. Peduncles 5–6 inches long, the raceme occupying 2–3 inches from the extremity; pedicels scarcely 1 line long. Legumes 0.75 inch long, about 8 seeded, spreading or pendulous, pale brown. (from JSTOR website) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie |
| Content last updated: | 13 May 2012 |
